The Ultimate Prodigal Son - Chapter 1154

[Chapter 1154 Distillation]

“Master, what are you talking about? I haven’t heard of them.”

After hearing Lin Tian’s words, the servant said to Lin Tian.

After hearing what the servant said, Lin Tian was also stunned. He obviously didn’t expect that there was no saltpeter and sulfur in this dynasty.

Lin Tian asked Chen Huifang again. Chen Huifang was originally a child of a medical family. Her family often studied unknown things and was likely to know about them.

However, to Lin Tian’s disappointment, Chen Huifang, who was a child of a medical family with an unknown inheritance, had never heard of these two things. It could even be said that they were unheard of.

As a last resort, Lin Tian could only go out and look for these raw materials for making gunpowder. Now Lin Tian wants to find sulfur first, because sulfur is more difficult to find in comparison. Let alone charcoal, you can get charcoal by burning some wood.

As for saltpeter, it is not particularly difficult to find. Just look for the wall in the house that is always damp, and you can see saltpeter on it. Lin Tian decided to send his servants to find it. So Lin Tian is still looking for sulfur first.

It is difficult to obtain sulfur. You need to look for it in the crater of a volcano that has erupted, or in the veins at the foot of the volcano.

This kind of sulfur ore is extremely difficult to find. Even if you find it, you still need to process it in a certain way to get sulfur. The cumbersome steps make Lin Tian frown, but since Lin Tian has made up his mind, he will overcome all the difficulties.

Lin Tian first asked where there was a mine here, and it was a mine at the foot of a volcano that had erupted.

But Chen Huifang and the housekeeper, and even the servants who were asked by Lin Tian, had never heard of any mines nearby, let alone the mine at the foot of the volcano that Lin Tian was looking for.

After seeing their reactions, Lin Tian was speechless again. Could it be that they didn’t even know about the mine?

“Master, it’s not our fault that we didn’t know. The mine produces copper and iron, which has always been a top priority for a country. How could ordinary people like us know about the existence of the mine?”

After seeing Lin Tian’s disappointed expression, the housekeeper explained to Lin Tian, and the housekeeper also looked helpless. After hearing the housekeeper’s explanation, Lin Tian understood instantly that all these were under the management of the emperor, and now it seems that the confidentiality work is very good. After

Lin Tian figured it out, he said to everyone: “I’ll go to the palace.” Then, Lin Tian left the Prime Minister’s Mansion and went directly to the palace to find the emperor.

After finding the emperor who was reviewing the memorials, Lin Tian asked the emperor about the mine in Yan State.

Then he left without stopping, which made the emperor have an illusion: “Is this still Lin Aiqing? Why is Lin Aiqing, who has always been procrastinating, so anxious?”

Lin Tian did not hear the emperor’s doubts. He had already left the emperor’s study, went straight out of the palace, and rushed back to his home.

After returning home, Lin Tian did not go directly to the mine to look for sulfur ore, but called out Guard Ying and Guard Lie and asked them to go there in person. Because if he sent other people, Lin Tian might not be able to rest assured.

Lin Tian roughly described the appearance of the sulfur mine to Guard Ying and Guard Lie.

There are also some identification methods, and then he drew the locations of the veins that the emperor had told Lin Tian about on the map, handed them to Guard Ying and Guard Lie, and finally asked them to set off. The

reason why Lin Tian did not go there in person was that Lin Tian had to get saltpeter in person, and there were some other preparations that needed to be done by Lin Tian himself.

It was not that the servants of the Prime Minister’s Mansion could not complete it, but Lin Tian was afraid that the things he needed would be spread by the servants.

If gunpowder was made by others at that time, the harm it would cause would be far more than that.

Now Lin Tian can still control it in certain aspects. If other people can make gunpowder at that time, they will use it in war, and then the common people will suffer.

That’s why Lin Tiancai was so cautious when selecting materials, and even sent out his two personal guards, because only by doing so could he be completely relieved in two days.

Seeing that there were only one or two months left before New Year’s Day, Lian Tian wanted to make gunpowder and then fireworks, so he might need to hurry up.

Because although Lin Tian knew how to make gunpowder and fireworks, he had never made them himself, and he needed some attempts to develop them.

So Lin Tian stayed in the Prime Minister’s Mansion and continued to look for some other things he needed, such as saltpeter, honey, arsenic, and some tools needed in the production process.

Although these were not as difficult to find as sulfur, some of them still required Lin Tian to ask the emperor for special approval before he could have the right to use them, so this has become Lin Tian’s main job now.

First, he asked the emperor for permission to use them, and then he looked for them in the palace, or traded and purchased them in the market, and some even required Lin Tian to get them himself.

For example, if you want to make fireworks, you must have something to carry them. Lin Tian originally wanted to use cardboard instead, but it seems that there is no paper in this dynasty, so Lin Tian can only use some bamboo tubes instead.

In addition, Lin Tian also had the idea of making paper in his mind, because writing without paper is also a problem, not to mention that paper is indispensable on weekdays.

After Lin Tian was busy for about five or six days, the guards Ying and Lie also rushed back. The speed of the two of them was much faster than Lin Tian.

If Lin Tian urged them, they would have to find the sulfur mine faster.

At this time, Ling Tian had also prepared the necessary tools and materials, and the blacksmiths of the old blacksmith shop helped to build a simple distillation device in the past few days. Two days

want to extract sulfur from the sulfur mine by distillation. Because this is the simplest way Lin Tian can think of at present, not only is it simple to operate, but it can also save time and effort.

Lin Tian prepared a little and was ready to start distilling. He wanted to make the gunpowder quickly so that he could make the fireworks quickly and not affect the use of them on New Year’s Day.

Lin Tian thought that this great feat would start in his hands, and he was so excited that he couldn’t wait to prepare to distill sulfur.